Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant offers a layup from under the basket as the San Antonio Spurs' DeJuan Blair (45) defends at the Staples Center. PAUL RODRIGUEZ, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

SANTA ANA – An Ohio woman has sued Laker Kobe Bryant, accusing him of not following through with a marriage proposal and she now wants the NBA superstar to compensate her.

The accusation comes two years after an Ohio federal judge dismissed an invasion-of-privacy and defamation suit brought by Selina Miller, 46, against Bryant, the NBA and its commissioner, concluding that the allegations lacked "an arguable basis in fact and are not plausible."

In a telephone interview Tuesday, Selina Miller, 46, said she is upset "to be stood up before getting to the altar."

A representative of Bryant, a Newport Coast resident, could not immediately be reached for comment on the new civil suit filed last month in Orange County Superior Court.

In the Ohio case, the judge dismissed the suit, in which Miller represented herself as she does in her claim in Orange County, calling it "frivolous."

The Ohio court noted that Miller had filed at least 10 other suits against other defendants – many of them dismissed a short time later – asserting similar claims of slander and invasion of privacy.

In the Orange County breach-of-contract complaint, which is difficult to follow and includes many grammatical errors, Miller alleges that on May 1 she received a completed and signed agreement from Bryant, but it is unclear what the document supposedly stated.

Bryant's behavior "comports with unfair business and no good faith efforts," her complaint reads. "The defendant Kobe Bryant marriage proposal with Selina Miller is breached."

Miller asserted in the telephone interview that Bryant bought into a rumor that she is a prostitute and called off their marriage.

"If you're a woman scorned by an NBA player, it makes you look unworthy," she said, adding that she runs her own business assisting victims of violent crimes. "I never did anything to him. It was kind of very emotional for me. I am standing up for my rights, no matter what people say."

Miller, who said she lives in Santa Ana and in Columbus, Ohio, said she met Bryant in late 2008 or early 2009 at a Lakers home game.

When asked why Bryant would propose to her when he is married, she said she believes he is not married.

She is seeking compensatory damages, including the ring that she says Bryant purchased for her.

"Maybe he felt the fire was there," Miller said, "and he wanted to give (the ring) to me, but he never made good on it."

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